Show SPORt I PARADE t. t i Heydler Speaks ks' ks Wants More Action I Dia Diamond Needs Need Pep I J 5 By HENRY McLEMORE United Press Sports Sport Writer NEW V YORK YORK April 20 Corning 20 Coming from a man who wh n never never er before had said anything inor more belligerent than t than that baseball is th the m national pastime and Is in for its great greatest st season eason In lit history John A. A official cc in in which he rg q NatIonal National Na Na league athletes jo to be more combative came as a agre great t ho kl Mr Heydler didn't so but bure readIng read read- d Ing between the lines gave us the Impression that what he craves inthe in the belief it will act atas t. t as lS a stimulus to patronage is a a little more hoodlumism hoodlum hoodlum- ism and blackguardism True ue Mr Heydler's bulletin was was couched in usually Uy associated d' d with an address before Defore a boys boys' club but nevertheless we wc gai gained d the idea a well blackened eye a anc neatly turned epithet or ora a nicely ly spiked shin would hold more customer appeal than thana a om one hit hit game or a a triple In short weve we've a feeling that Heydler Is of the the opinion that a team the theold old Orioles would make the turnstiles sing ing a The Orioles The ai el ci Orioles Oriole My lr what a a. flood of af memories the mention of 01 that delightful ran gang of cutthroat cutthroats brings bl back baek kWe k We never saw the Orioles but weve we've heard so so much about them fr from m bewhiskered l old rent genie that we e feel as though we we played s 4 shortstop to McGraws McGraw's third base bue I What an attraction that old gan aM w would uld be toda today l' l Your 1932 fans sick and tired of baseball players play baseball would ouid fight tight to get in the park And why not Why not indeed Would the Orioles bore the fans ns by playing baseball They would not The fans tans would see the Orioles slipping strychnine in their opponents' opponents water pail sawing swing bats in half spitting tobacco juice in ln the umpires umpire's umpires umpire's um urn- pires pire's eyes yelling waterfront greetings greetings greetings greet greet- ings acro across the diamond nd shouting and nd cursing after the mann manner t of ot a group of clean loving fun ng scrappy bc boys ys S SAnd And from what we gather ather the theol theol ol 01 Orioles wouldn't nt stop th their ir show when the tame game was over aver They'd probably charter a an open hack and with alt all ll hands snarling and snapping and thumbing thumbing their their noses noses at the populace ce ride ha happily hap bap pUy to ba saloon Once at the saloon sa sa saloon loon oon a all hands would tank up and th then n. n armed with howle ie knives and billiard bUllard cues choose up sides and enrage engage In a a few hours hoars of horseplay S So no wonder r theres there's a growing dissatisfaction with the modern baseball baseball base base- ball bail player Nine or or ten tees of them m are pretty decent ge gentlemen w who o arrive nive at the park on time play a spirited but sportsmanlike game take taka a 01 shower and then go home forr dinner torr-dinner dinner and an evening of car cards reading or orthe orthe orthe the theater That's no no noway way for lor a ball player to act art An ol 01 Oriole ii never ver would have acted that way If It one one of them did accidentally g go home Cm after a game gaple hed he'd throw his wife wIle out the third third- story window shoot the joint up and return to his playmates on the corner The Orioles The ol 01 Orioles There were ball players for you youl ou |